INITIAL TALKS OVER THE MEETING OF ARMENIAN AND AZERBAIJANI FMs ARE HELD

YEREVAN, AUGUST 21, ARMENPRESS: Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian told today at a joint press conference with UNHCR High Commissioner Antonio Gutteres that initial talks over the organization of the meeting of the Armenian and Azerbaijani foreign ministers are being held and at present the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group are specifying with the sides the place and time of the meeting.

At the press conference Oskanian also said that the Armenian side has not received new proposals from the co-chairs. After the meeting on August 2 in Paris the co-chairs of the OSCE Minsk Group Yuri Merzlyakov (Russia), Bernard Fassier (France) and Matthew Bryza (United States of America) stated that proceeding from the St Petersburg G8 Chairman’s statement on Nagorno Karabakh, they considered different options to achieve its objectives, which would be proposed to the parties, and would wait for their thoughts.

At the press conference Gutteres said not being involved in the process of the regulation of the Karabakh conflict, UN is interested in its peaceful regulation.